In the Footsteps
of Bashō: small group travel in Japan
with a focus on Japanese Literature
A Bit of
Ourselves – Haiku by the Gourds Team
Welcome to A Hundred Gourds.
Our journal's name is taken from a haiku by
Chiyo-ni (1703–1775), who is widely regarded as
one of the greatest haiku poets of the Edo period:

Please read the editors link
for biographical information about the AHG Team.
The navigation bar at the top will take you to
each section of the journal. As this is the last
issue of A Hundred Gourds, we
are no longer accepting submissions.
The translation of
Chiyo-ni's poem – hyakunari ya tsuru hitosuji
no kokoro yori – is from Chiyo-ni -
Woman Haiku Master, Patricia Donegan and
Yoshie Ishbashi; Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Co.,
Inc. 1998.
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and artists. No work may be republished or used in
any way without their explicit permission. A
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collaboration between Lorin Ford, Melinda Hipple,
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Michael Rehling who so generously has contributed
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2016
ISSN 2202-0087
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